API® Preamp
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API Preamp
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N. Hassling-Offrell
Great preamp!
Really nice punchy sound!
G. Żabski
Really great audio plugin
Good sounding and solid preamp for Unison technology. I really like to use it to recording guitars or vocals in my studio. The best one !
A. Cambon
API Vision owner why did I pay again ?
Should be a give for api vision owners
t. eighty-four
Up, Front, and Punchy
This was a nice addition to the 1290 preamp plugin I had purchased earlier this year. I found that the 1290 was better suited for my setup as a vocal preamp. The 212 on the other hand is indispensable for tracking out my synths and samplers. The tone is up, front, and punchy. That has made the 212 a go to for tracking.
J. OConnor
Punch Drunk
All The Punch you Could Ever Need!!!
Worth Every Penny
J. Tofte
Spot on!
I love this preamp. Colours the input signal just the way I like it. Great job UA.
M. Roy
UAD you did it again!
Definitely the best on the market! Sound Amazing!!
T. Spaniel
Best Preamp
my favorite preamp cuts through every mix great for guitars or vocals
C. George
Killer Preamp
This is hands down their best sounding preamp. I have the hardware as well and I can get the same tones as my hardware. No one can tell a difference in a mix. Sounds killer on rock/metal drums, guitars, and vocal/screams. Hit the Mic gain hard and then back off on the output and it will get you that sound you hear on records! Booom!
K. Thura
Nice preamp
Excellent track coloration.
j. Stewart
API Pre
Nice & clean on the unisons . Happy to have it my toolbox .
v. krumov
Nice preamp
So nice for fast funky guitars, drums. Classic tone of API
D. Lee
Lot's of Character
Used this on my unison pre's for a gig, and it gave my rig the punch it needed!
R. Juniel
Recording engineer \ musician
This is one plug-in that I really love the sound quality
V. German
A small device with a hot character
Great preamp. Warms up the signal nicely. Liked it on voice, bass, for saturating subtle timbres. Thanks API and UAD!
N. Nolan
Awesome API Saturation
I’ve been a big fan of the UAD API Vision channel strip for years. I decided to buy a real 550b EQ and 527A compressor. They sound amazing, of course, but I was missing the preamp gain. This little plugin completes the package.
U. Soto
This is amazing!!!
This plug-in is soooo good! Get it and u won’t regret it!
m. stallings
LPX switch to UAD Luna
I’m a hobbyist that recently switched from LPX and Izotope plugins to Luna with full API console emulation bundle…. So what’s changed?? Almost everything….
1. Recording is much easier in Luna
2. I got in a bad habit of mixing with my eyes…. Now that I have fewer visual cues to look at, I’m using my ears… which is forcing me to really learn this system.
3. Like many have said, just running the tough mix through Studer, Ampex and Summing sounds really good…. Now add API consoles and wow…
4. I have a new MacBook Pro 16gb RAM computer and was worried that no way would it handle all of this stuff… wrong…. Works great… now I don’t do projects with a hundred tracks… instead, I’ll very carefully bounce complex backing vocals or orchestration into stereo files…. Much easier to deal with…
Love limited choices…. Makes committing much easier. The gate, compressor and EQ’s sound beautiful and I can work quickly….
My hobby is a lot more satisfying with mixes coming together much faster and sounding great….
m. tellez
Color único por un excelente precio
El color de API es algo que siempre busco y esta emulación de UA es perfecta para casi toda la percusión que grabo, incluso en voces me va genial muchas veces pero sin duda un preamplificador muy versátil en general. Una buena compra por un buen precio.
G. Loopez
Great color
I did add this preamp on a couple of my tracks while mixing an older project. It gave me instantly great energy and color. I am definitely gonna be using this a lot going forward. I hope it will be available on the Spark platform too.
